Briefs -- Published Feb. 18, 2011

STOCKTON - The city is looking to fill one vacancy on the Central Parking District Advisory Board. The term begins upon appointment and will run through September 2014.

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STOCKTON - The city is looking to fill one vacancy on the Central Parking District Advisory Board. The term begins upon appointment and will run through September 2014.

The board advises the City Council on matters from parking rates to development plans in the Central Parking District. It meets monthly, and members serve without remuneration.

Applicants must own property or be an executive officer or board member of a corporation that owns property within the Central Parking District.

Information: Call Greg Folsom, deputy director of economic development, (209) 937-8539. Applications, due by 5 p.m. March 4, are at stocktongov.com/commissions/vacancies.cfm or at the City Clerk's Office, 425 N. El Dorado St., Stockton.

STOCKTON - The Hospice of San Joaquin is holding a one-hour informational meeting starting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday for those interested in training to become a hospice volunteer.

The volunteer training program offers participants an opportunity to learn about the history of hospice care, including philosophy, the team concept in end-of-life care and understanding grief as a result of the loss of a loved one.

The informational meeting will be held in the administration building at Hospice of San Joaquin, 3888 Pacific Ave., Stockton. For information and to register for the meeting, call Becky Freeman, (209) 957-3888.

STOCKTON - University of the Pacific's Phi Delta Chi will be hosting its second annual Multicultural Health Fair from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 27 at Calvary Presbyterian Church, 2343 Country Club Blvd., Stockton.

STOCKTON - Hispanics for Political Action will host a meet-and-greet event featuring local elected officials from 6 to 9 p.m. next Friday at Cancun Restaurant, 135 E. Miner Ave.

Officials also will discuss local community issues. Representatives from the Stockton Unified School District, Tracy Unified School District and Stockton City Council are scheduled to attend.

Information: (209) 957-5133.

MANTECA - Lathrop's Our Lady of Guadalupe Church is planning its annual crab feed for Feb. 26 at Festa do Espiritu Santo de Manteca, Portuguese Hall, 230 N. Main St.

The event begins at 5:30 p.m. with no-host cocktails, followed by dinner from 6 to 8 p.m. The Mike Torres Band will provide entertainment and dance music. Door prizes will be awarded.

Cost is $35 per person for advance registration and $40 at the door. Information: (209) 858-4466.

STOCKTON - Aspire Public Schools' Langston Hughes Academy is hosting two upcoming free events related to science education, both of which will be open to students and teachers from all school districts in the region.

The first event is a Saturday Science Academy for sixth- through eighth-graders that will run from 10 a.m. to noon on March 5, 12 and 26, and April 2, 9 and 16 at Langston Hughes, 2050 West Lane in Stockton.

The second event is a professional development and curriculum enhancement session for eighth- through 12th-grade science teachers. It will run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 5 at Langston Hughes. Saundra Yancy McGuire, a prominent science educator who is an assistant vice chancellor at Louisiana State University, will be the featured speaker at the professional-development event.

Both events have been organized by the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers.

For more information, call Isom Harrison at (209) 482-7146 or at (925) 424-6105.

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